Container holder



Feb. 27, 1923. 1,446,717

A. B. MOSER CONTAINER HOLDER Filed May 5, 1922 Patented Feb, 27, iaaa AURELIUS BENTON MOSER, OF OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA.

CONTAINER HOLDER.

Application filed May 3, 1922. Serial No. 558,088.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, AUnnLrUs B. Mosnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Uroville, in the county of Butte and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Container Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to container holders, and has for its object to provide a holder capable of being readily attached to a container, such as a fruit jar or can, to facilitate handling of the container.

It is another object of the invention to provide a holder of this character capable of receiving jars and cans of various sizes, and wherein the jars and cans are firmly held by means carried by the holder.

It is still a further object of the invention to provide a holder of this character including a stationary jaw and a movable jaw, said stationary jaw and movable jaw being the only portion of the device intended to engage the container to be supported.

It is also an object of the invention to pro vide a holder of this character including a body member having a stationary and a movable jaw, the body member being movable to adjust itself, according to the shape of the container.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved construction and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter more particularly described, fully claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a container holder constructed in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a portion of the handle being shown in section; and

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a body member consisting of a length of resilient material, such as wire, relatively thick, the ends 6 and 7 of the length being twisted one upon the other to provide a stem 8, said stem being inserted in the socket of a handle 9. By this arrangement, the body member forms a hoop adapted to receive the jar or container.

Secured to the inner face of the body member 8 to one side of the handle 9 is a stationary jaw member 10 consisting of a strip of metal, having its edges extended upwardly and inwardly, to provide teeth, a strip 11 of yieldable material, such as cork or rubber, being disposed in the jawand held by the teeth, said strip being relatively long, and curved according to the contour of the body member, so as to readily engage the'container. The urpose of the yieldable strip is to prevent slipping of the container when applied, even if the outer face of the container is coated with liquid of any kind. It will be noted that the jaw member 10 projects inwardly from the inner face of the body member toward the center of the body member. The purpose of this is to prevent contact of the adjacent portions of the body member 5 with the container and to permit the body member to adjust itself in view of its resiliency. The portion 12 of the body member 5, diametrically opposite the stationary jaw 10, is flattened and provided with an opening adapted to receive a threaded sleeve 13, the sleeve being permanently secured in the opening and projecting outwardly of the body member to pro vide a relatively long bearing. Mounted in the sleeve is a threaded shank 14:, one end of said shank having an operating knob 15, while pivoted to the opposite end is a movable jaw member 16 in the form of a socket, a quantity of yieldable material, such as cork or rubber, 17 being disposed in the socket, the outer face of said material being flat.

This device is especially recommended for handling glass fruit jars or cans to permit the jars or cans to be readily removed from scalding water, or when the jars are too hot to touch in view of the food therein. The device is applied by positioning the body member around the jar or can and while holding the same with the handle 9, adjust the movable jaw 16 through the medium of the knob 15 and the sleeve 13, thereby urging the yieldable material 17 into binding engagement with one side face of the holder, and also urging the jar into engagement with the yieldable material 11 of the stationary jaw. In view of the fact that the body member 5 is yieldable, it is possible to firmly bind the holder on the container, so that accidental disengagement or slipping is prevented. This holder may also be satisfactorily used in connection with containers of all shapes, in view of the self-adjusting feature of the body member 5.

From the foregoing it will be readily seen that this invention provides ,a novel form of containerholder capableoitibeing applied to containers of various sizes, regardless of the material from which they are made, and wherein the container isheld by means of the holder, without causing contact of the container with the body member or hoop. This feature permits unobstructed self-adjustment of the hoop according to the shape of the container when the movable jaw is being operated/ All of these features are possessed by a device ,thatis compact in form and simple in construction. a

What is claimed is A container holder consisting of a length of resilient wire having its ends twisted one upon the other to provide a hoop, a handle member engaged with said twisted end portions, a stationary jaw member comprising .a strip of metal longitudinally curvedand having its edges reverted to provide clamping means, a, block of yieldable material sesignature.

cured to said strip by the edges thereof, said stripbeing secured to theinner face of the hoop, said hoop having an opening diametrically opposite the stationary jaw, an in ternally threaded sleeve extending through said opening and beyond the hoop, a threaded shank mounted in said sleeve, a socket.

member movably mounted on the inner end of said shank,the edge of said socket member being extended inwardly to provide gripping means, a block of .yieldable material disposed in said socket and'fclamped by said edges, said shank being rotatably movable independently of the socket, whereby the yieldable material of the stationary and movable jaws is permitted to conform to the shape of the object and to also permit rotatable movement of the threaded shank independently of the socket member.

In testimony whereof-I hereunto aflix my AURELiUs BENTON Moses. 

